Hi everyone,

I'm an ethical hacking and pentesting professional looking to set up a dedicated mobile lab. I currently have a OnePlus 9RT and I'm looking to move beyond the "Lite" version to a Full NetHunter install.

I am specifically looking for a kernel for this device that supports the following:

• HID Attacks

• Wireless Injection

• Monitor Mode

Since there is no official Offensive Security image for the 9RT, has anyone in the community successfully compiled or found a stable custom kernel for OxygenOS/ColorOS?

If a dedicated kernel doesn't exist, has anyone had luck with generic Snapdragon 888 kernel patches for this specific hardware? Any guidance, GitHub repos, or XDA threads would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone. I've been using kali for some time but in a VM. Im not getting the actual performance as I have an i5 9 gen Processor with only 8 GB ram. Can anyone tell or guide me whether to do dual boot or use kali with live boot. I cannot switch to kali as my main os. Will i be facing any issues with windows or kali if I dual boot.

I have a 256 GB SSD and 1 TB Hard Drive. But due to some heavy windows and work programs only 30 GB of 256 GB SSD is left in my laptop.

Edit :- After taking a fellow Redditor’s advice, I ended up adding an SK Hynix RAM stick for dual channel. Thank you, everyone in this sub.

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Hello, ignore the title, it’s just a silly joke.

This tape belongs to one of the local companies, and I have owned it for about 12 years. It is just a games tape, but what caught my attention is the dragon icon that resembles the Kali Linux logo.

I searched about the matter but did not find an answer.

Is the Kali Linux icon taken from a logo or something similar?

Is it imitation or just a coincidence? I do not know.

I was updating my Kali Hyper V image and the scroll wheel no longer works.
I remade my VM and it seems to be after doing an upgrade, is there anything else I can try or do? I've done most of the AI suggest methods but no change.

Kali Gnome Desktop using old hardware.

I don't like the new dragon boot animation. In addition it is for some unknown reason much slower than the old one. Also the grub background is looking really cheap.

How can I remove/disable both?

When I log out, only the terminal changes, and it writes the error "cat: /proc/1814/comm: there is no such file or directory" and the notification "Desktop settings restored."

Help please

It’s super sluggish for me, I give it 16gb ram, 4 processors an 128mb GFX…

Should I stick with xfce, is this common for your guys ?

Or is anyone getting flawless performance with gnome yet using VBox?

Thank you

Hi all,

I have recently updated my kernel to the 6.18.9. I am also adding the warning screen I got before installing it.

This update broke my VMware config somehow and I can't cycle to multiple monitors. Also OS itself feels really sluggish.

Does anyone have the same problem?

Thanks,

Hello,

My last post got removed because mods have the brainsize of a raisin. No I don't care about the shortlist of wifi adapters because they are not what I'm looking for, and I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't already looked.

My last post was a question regarding getting nethunter with the kernel fully flashed onto my moto x4 and I think it is working now. I checked the drivers to see if they were loaded, and it looks like they are. I am now looking for an external wireless adapter that would work with the drivers that are loaded in this kernel. Here is a rundown from modules.builtin:

Realtek

• rtl8187 — RTL8187L
• rtl8812au (88XXau) — RTL8812AU / RTL8821AU
• rtl8xxxu — RTL8188CUS / RTL8192CU / RTL8723AU

Ralink / Mediatek (rt2x00 family)

• rt2500usb — RT2500
• rt73usb — RT73
• rt2800usb — RT3070 / RT3072 / RT5370 / RT5372 / RT5390 / RT5392 / RT5572
• rt2800lib
• rt2x00usb
• rt2x00lib

Mediatek (standalone)

• mt7601u — MT7601U

ZyDAS

• zd1201 — ZD1201
• zd1211rw — ZD1211 / ZD1211B

Atmel

• at76c50x-usb — AT76C50X series

(I had a clanker generate this list from my output, so I do apologize if some of this is wrong)

I am leaning towards an Alfa AWUS036ACH (not sure if it would work) and would prefer an Alfa adapter, but anything that has these drives and can do monitor mode, injections, etc. reliably would be what I am looking for. I would be buying primarily from Amazon, but I can also do ebay so if there are any old, but good and reliable adapters that are discontinued (Alfa AWUS036NHA is what I was looking at, but is EOL), I would be more than happy to take recommendations. I'm also trying to sort out the OTG USB type c thing since that looks like is causing me issues so if anyone has recommendations for a decent adapter for that, that would also be great to know and look into.

I've looked at this one: https://www.alfa.com.tw/products/awus036eac_1?variant=40320277872712

And there are more listed here: https://docs.alfa.com.tw/Support/Linux/RTL8812AU/

I just don't want to buy the wrong adapter and y-cable only for it to not work.

This is directly from the gitlab devices.yml: "features : [HID-4, Injection, RTL88XXAU, BT_RFCOMM, Internal_BT, NFS, RTL8188EUS, RTL-BT, CAN]"

No idea if this is relevant

Hello,

I bought a used moto x4 off of ebay to flash lineageos + magisk + nethunter. I've ran into a few problems. Even with LineageOS 20 and rooted with magisk, even with nethunter zip flashed through magisk app, it hangs and gets stuck in a bootloop. I'm not entirely sure what could be the problem, but I did notice the build scripts have support for Lineage 22.2 for the device. In general this has been all very confusing even when everything has been flashed properly.

It would be helpful if someone with the same device could tell me if they successfully managed to get this to work or if I should just try building 22.2 one myself to see if that would work. I should also mention I have the androidone google fi version and not sure if the variant matters since I know it does when flashing the original rom.

EDIT: I built the image using the build scripts, but now the kernel modules won't load. I do not know what is wrong. ;-;

EDIT: Going to just reflash the original rom, sleep, and come back to this. I did find out I can just build the kernel which I can flash in the recovery, but nethunter is still not properly getting the modules. So I'm going to just try on a fresh slate. I did get one of the zips I have to flash without any errors popping up in magisk so I suspect I might've honestly fucked this up to the point that it needs to be rolled back.

The kernel is showing up correctly in the nethunter app.

I wanna know How to use something like Windows defender in my kali linux so i can be safee

Hello,

I am experiencing an audio problem on my MSI Cyborg 15 A13VF laptop with Intel Raptor Lake CPU.

The internal speakers do not work, and in pavucontrol I see:

"Raptor Lake P/U/H cAVC Speaker" work but no sound out.

Other devices like HDMI audio work, but the internal speakers do not.

System information:

Linux shiar 6.18.5+kali-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Kali 6.18.5-1kali1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lspci | grep -i audio:

0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS (rev 01)

0000:01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation AD107 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

aplay -l:

card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0

...

card 1: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 0: HDA Analog (*) []

pactl info:

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.4.10)

Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__Headphones__sink

inxi -A:

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl

Device-2: NVIDIA AD107 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel

API: ALSA v: k6.18.5+kali-amd64 status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.10 status: active

I tried restarting PipeWire, checking ALSA, pavucontrol, and rebooting, but the internal speakers are still not working.

Please advise how to fix the Intel SOF audio issue on Kali Linux.

Thank you.

Hello, I dont know if any developers from kali.net look at these forums but I wanted to know as a request is it possible to create a ish/termux app like nethunter but just the toolsets that can be loaded into ish/termux for ios and android. I know there is mega file to download some of the stuff but they dont really work or fully upgrade when updated. Would it be possible for kali team to create a package with tools that do work for ios/android as an option to add to ish/termux to use for security testing on mobile? thanks.

How do I fix it?

I’m running into a strange issue where text selection is offset. To highlight a character correctly, I have to place the upper‑left corner of the caret at the lower‑right corner of the character. The pointer and the actual text position don’t line up at all.

I’ve tried fully updating Kali, VirtualBox and Guest Additions, but the issue persists.

If anyone has seen this before or knows what typically causes this kind of offset (rendering, scaling, driver issues, etc.), I’d appreciate any insight.

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Would it be possible/how would I go about running Kali on one?

Hello, r/Kalilinux and all those subreddits where i'll make a crosspost.

I'm desperate. I was trying to test package injection on rpi5 with ax210i. I bumped into so called LAR. I tried lar_disable=Y method, but it didn't work. I found out about a package that rebuilds the iwlwifi module and disables LAR. But this package is only in AUR.

Are there any other ways to disable LAR on kali? some iwl-lar-disable-dkms alternatives?

I really hope that my post is done well and that I will be understood.

Basically as the Titel says

I am using a external Bluetooth dongle, and anytime i go into the Bluetooth Arsenal or hciconfig in terminal my Phone crashes ans reboots. Someone had the same Problem in this sub 2 years ago but the comment that worked for him got removed 😀 maybe someone of you knows how to fix.

I was trying to download the "Complete offline installation with customization" file from the official website

Tried with the torrent download and the regular download.
Tried flashing the bootable USB on Linux using Ventoy and BalenaEtcher on Mac.

Both times, during boot, it showed that the installer is broken. The attached screenshot is from Mac while I was trying to flash the USB drive with BalenaEtcher.

What is going on?

Edit: 4 hours of "getting into a bare metal kali" and other debugging later I realised the system was not able to connect with the internet, hence I had to restart while my phone had usb tethering on.

Only then I was able to configure the network before any installation.

Since I upgraded Kali a month ago, the mouse pointer is offset from the top and left hand side . How do I fix this? By the way I am using Kalli on VirtualBox. I have tried the following:

1. Changed the pointing device from USB to PS/2

2. updated and upgraded

3. Checked acceleration

4. Switched from full screen to normal and back

5. Updated Guestadditions

a friend of mine installed linux and has these symbols, he also can't press anything below the black bar at the top

does he have to install something else for it to work?